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BULLETIN OF THE WISCONSIN STATE 
BOARD OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION 

NO. 1 

Laws of Wisconsin 

RELATING TO 



EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN 

INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION AND 

TRUANCY 



COMPILED rNDEIJ DIKF.CTION C>F 

C. p. GARY 

State Superintendent 



MADISON 

Published by the Board 

1912 



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Wisconsin State Board of Industrial 
Education 



H. E. Miles, President 
Racine 

Louis E. Reber, Secretary 
Madison 

0. P. Cauy, Madison 

Donna Dines, Milwaulcee 

A. S. LiNDEMANN, Milwaukee 

Mert Malonk, Oshkosh 

William M. Miller, Eau Claire 

F. E. TuRNEAURE, Madison 

E. E. Winch, MarshfieLl 

D. OF D. 
APR I 25 1913 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page 

I. Introduction 3 

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE 

I. Compulsory scliool attendance and truancy 3 

1. Age 7 to 14; 14 to 16 if not regularly employed 4 

2. Time required to lie spent in school 4 

3. Violations of la%y ; how punished 4 

4. Incorrigibles 5 

5. Age of child how ascertained 5 

TRUANT OFFICERS 

I. Truancy officers shall be appointed 5 

II. Number 5 

1. In cities of the first class 5 

2^ In cities of 2,000 or more 5 

III. Duties , 9 

IV. Powers 9 

V. Compensation jO 

CENSUS REPORTS 

I. Method of taking census 6 

1. For districts .,.<.^ /..- 6 

2. For districts, when part of district is in one county and part 

in another 6 

a. Regulations concerning cities of 2,000 6 

3. Three copies of school census shall be made 6 

II. Census returns 6 

1. Reports contain what 6 

2. By whom and to whom made 6 

3. Open to superintendents, teachers, and truant officers 6 

4. Punishment for violation of law concerning records 8 

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT TO REPORT TO TRUANT 
OFFICERS AND TO THE COMMISSIONER OF 
INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS 

I. Procedure against truants 8 

1. Truant officer to serve notice 8 

2. Notice to contain what 9 

3. Powers of truant officer 9 

II. Compensation of truant officer 10 



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CONTINUATION AND EVENING SCHOOLS Page 

I. Minors working under permit 10 

1. Required school attendance 10 

2. Employer must permit reduction of hours not less than 

number of hours child is compelled to attend school 10 

CHILD LABOR LAW 
I. Permits 

1. To be secured by children under 16 in certain specified em- 

ployments 11 

2. From whom secured 11 

3. Method of securing 11 

II. Forbidden occupations 12 

1. Children under 14 forbidden to work except during vacations 12 

2. Employment of children under 16 on stage or in circus or 

theatrical performances limited 13 

a. Prescribing conditions under which permit may be given 13 

b. Defining application of the law 13 

3. Forbidding children under 16 to work in breweries, etc 13 

III. Register of minors employed to be kept by employers 13 

1. Register shall contain what information 14 

2. Information open to whom 14 

IV. Hours of work limited for children under 16 14 

1. Not more than 48 hours per week 14 

2. Not more than S hours in one day 14 

3. Names and hours of work of minors to be posted 14 

V. Duties of Commissioner of Labor, etc 14 

1. Duty of commissioner of labor, factory inspector, and every 

assistant factory inspector to enforce law 14,15 

2. May refuse to grant permits : ■ 15 

3. May revoke permits 15 

VI. Children under IS prohibited from certain dangerous employments 16 

VII. Penalties for violation of child labor law 16,17 

1. For employing illegally 17 

2. For failing to assist inspectors 17 

VIII. New sections concerning permits 18 

. . 1. Description and certified statement of age 18 

2. Certified statement of educational attainments 18 

3. Prosecutions^manner . 19 

4. Limitations of kind of hours of labor for persons under 21 19 

5. Law concerning permits 20 



HOURS OF LABOR FOR WOMEN 

I. Number ' and" arrangement of hours 20 

II. Hours to be posted by employer 21 

III. Penalty for violation of law 21 



EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS BETWEEN 14 AND 16 
YEARS OF AGE IN CERTAIN CASES 

I. See Continuation and Evening Schools (see also p. 10) 21 

II. Employment in towns in which there is continuation school. 22 

III. Employment of illiterate minors in certain cases 22 

IV. Penalties for violation of law 23 



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APPRENTICESHIP LAW 

I. Defines "Apprentice" and 'Indenture" 24 

II. Method by which a minor may be apprenticed 24 

III. Penalties for violation of the law with regard to apprentices 24 

IV. Indentures 24 

1. Signed by whom 24 

2. Contains what information 24 

V. Instruction specified for apprentices 25 

VI. Penalty for not attending school 25 

VII. Penalty for failure of either party to fulfill agreement 25 

VIII. Copy of indenture filed with state commissioner of labor 26 

TRADE SCHOOLS 

I. Trade schools may be established 26 

1. Under supervision and control of school boards 26 

2. School boards have power to establish, maintain, and equip 26 

a. Must have average enrollment of 30 pupils 26 

II. Committee on trade schools 27 

1. Members 27 

2. Powers, subject to approval by school board 27 

a. Prepare courses of study 27 

b. Purchase machinery, rent or purchase grounds, build- 

ings and equipment 27 

c. Employ or dismiss instructors 27 

3. Length of term of members 27 

4. Material consumed in work to be paid for by pupil 27 

III. Trade school fund 27 , 28 

1. Tax levy not to exceed 3/10 mills on the dollar 28 

2. Levied by city council upon all property, at request of school 

board 28 

3. May borrow from school funds under certain conditions 28 

IV. Method of procedure for establishing trade school 29 

V. Special funds. Trade schools, etc 31 

(See also p. 28) 

STATE BOARD OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION 

I. State Board of Industrial Education 31 

1. Members 31 

a. Six appointive members — three employers, three em- 

ployes 31 

b. Ex ofiicio members. State Superintendent, Dean of Ex- 

tension Division and Dean of the College of Engi- 
neering 31,32 

2. Length of term 32 

a. Appointive members two years 32 

3. Salary, $100 a year and traveling expenses 32 

4. Appointed by the governor 32 

VI. Assistant for Industrial Education 32 

1. Selected by the state superintendent of public instruction... 32 

2. Duties 32 

3. Salary 32 

VII. Local Boards of Industrial Education 33 

1. Establishment 33 

a. In cities of over 5,000 33 

b. In cities of less than 5,000 33 



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2. Members 33 

a. City superintendent (ex officio) or principal of higli school 3o 

b. Two employers 33 

0. Two employes 33 

3. Appointment 33 

a. Appointed by local school board and serve without pay 33 

4. Term 33 

a. Two years from January first in which appointed 33 

5. Officers 33 

6. State aid 33 

7. Teachers 33 

a. Qualifications, etc 33 

8. Board has power to purchase or rent buildings and to equip 

them 33 

9. May contract with Extension Division for instruction 34 

10. Industrial school fund 34 

(See also pp. 28, 31.) 

a. Tax levy in cities and towns 34 

b. Money to be kept separate from the other money of the 

city and to be used exclusively for purposes of indus- 
trial education 34 

c. Money spent only by local board of industrial education 3-5 

d. Report of money required 34 

e. Taxation 34 

11. Courses of study 35 

a. Approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

tion and State Board of Industrial Education 35 

b. Include English, citizenship, sanitation, hygiene, and use 

of safety devices 35 

c. Other approved branches 35 



STATE AID 

Till. Appropriations for cities 35 

1. Maximum appropriation 35 

2. Number of schools that may be established 35 

3. How long state aid is given to a city 35 

4. Reports of expenditures by city 36 

IX. Schools open to whom ._ 33 

X. Tuition charged 36 

1. When 36 

2. To whom ; 36 



BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF STOUT INSTITUTE 

I. State ownership 37 

1. Stout Institute turned over to state 37 

2. Conditions of acceptance 37 

II. Purposes and objects of Stout Institute 37,38 

•III. Powers of the Board 38 

1. Make rules for government of Institute 38 

2. Appoint President and other officers 38 

3. Fix salaries 38 

4. Remove employes from office 38 

5. Cooperate with other institutions 38 

IV. Maintenance of Stout Institute 38 



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SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS USED FOR SPECIAL 
ACTIVITIES 

Page 
i. Scliool Boards may establish and maiutain continuation schools, 

evening scliools, etc. (See also pp. 26, 33.) 39,40 



SPECIAL AID TO COUNTY SCHOOLS OF AGRICULTURE 
AND DOMESTIC SCIENCE 

I. Maintenance 41 

II. Minimum salary of teachers 42 



Employment of Women and Children 
Industrial Education and Truancy 



INTRODUCTORY. 



The legislature of 1911 enacted a number of measures pro- 
viding for the organization of vocational, continuation, trade 
and evening schools, and also some statutes relating to a vigor- 
ous enforcement of truancy and labor laws. These laws are of 
vital importance and in order that their provisions may be 
easily known to interested parties, it is found necessary to issue 
this pamphlet. The enforcement of the different provisions 
found in the laws relating to truancy, and to the employment of 
women, children and illiterate minors rests largely in the hands 
of the Industrial Commission and its agents. The Industrial 
Commission takes the place of the Bureau of Labor and Indus- 
trial Statistics, retaining the powers, duties and responsibilities 
of the labor bureau with many added duties imposed by new 
statutes. Some of these statutes also impose new duties and 
responsibilities upon the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion. For this reason this pamphlet is compiled and issued un- 
der the joint direction of the Industrial Commission and the 
State Superintendent. 



COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND TRUANCY. 

Section 439a. Any person having under his control any 
child between the ages of seven and fourteen years, or any 
child between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years not regu- 
larly and lawfully employed in any useful employment or ser- 
\ace at home or elsewhere, as provided by chapter 349 of the 
laws of 1903, shall cause such child to be enrolled in and to 
attend some public, parochial or private school regularly (reg- 



ular attendance for the purpose of this statute shall be an atten- 
dance of twenty days in each school month, unless the child 
can furnish some legal excuse), in cities of the first class during 
the full period and hours of the calendar year (religious holi- 
days excepted) that the public, parochial or private school in 
which such child is enrolled may be in session; in all other 
cities not less than eight school months; and in towns and vil- 
lages not less than six school months in each year, and all chil- 
dren subject to the provisions of this act shall be enrolled in 
some public, parochial or private echool within one school month 
after the commencement of the school term in the district in 
which such children reside, except that in cities of the first class 
such children shall be enrolled at the time of the opening of 
the school which they will attend (and tlie word "term" 
for the purpose of this act, shall be "construed to mean the 
entire time that school is maintained during the school year) ; 
provided that this section shall not apply to any child not 
in proper physical or mental condition to attend school, who 
shall present the certificate of a reputable physician in gen- 
eral practice to that effect, nor to any child who lives in 
country districts more than two miles by the nearest traveled 
road from the schoolhouse in the district where such child 
resides; provided that if transportation is furnished by the 
district this exemption as to distance shall not apply, nor 
shall this section apply to any child who shall have completed 
the course of study for the common schools of this state or 
the first eight grades of work as taught in state graded or 
other graded schools of "Wisconsin, and can furnish the proper 
diploma, certificate, or credential showing that he has com- 
pleted one of said courses of study, or its equivalent. Instruc- 
tion during the required period elsewhere than at school, by a 
teacher or instructor selected by the person having control of 
such child shall be ecpiivalent to school attendance, provided that 
such instruction received elsewhere than in school be at least 
substantially equivalent to instruction given to children of like 
ages in the public, parochial or private school where such chil- 
dren reside. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this 
section shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of 
not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, together 
with costs of prosecution or by imprisonment in the county jail 
not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprison- 



nieut ill the discretion of the court, for each offense. It shall 
be the duty of the district attorney and liis assistants to 
prosecute in the name of the state all violations of the provi- 
sions of this section. Any person who shall be proceeded 
against under the provisions of this section may prove in de- 
fense that he is unable to compel the child under his control 
to attend school or to work, and he shall be thereupon dis- 
charged from liability, and such child shall be proceeded 
against as incorrigible, or otherwise, according to law, and in 
ease of commitment, if the parents or person having control 
of such child desire it, such child shall be committed to a 
school or association controlled by persons of the same relig- 
ious faith as such child, which is willing and able to receive 
and maintain it without compensation from the public treas- 
ury. When in any proceedings uirder this section there is 
any doubt as to the age of any child, a verified baptismal 
certificate or duly attested birth certificate shall be produced 
and filed in court. In ease such certificates cannot be secured, 
upon proof of such fact, the record of age stated in the first 
school enrollment of such child or first school enrollment to 
be found shall be admissible as evidence thereof. (:1907 c. 446) 
Section 439b. In all cities of the first class the board of 
education or any board having similar powers, shall appoint 
ten or more truant officers and in atll other cities having more 
than 2,000 population by the last United States or state cen- 
sus, such board shall appoint one or more truant officers whose 
duty it shall be to see that the provisions of this act are en- 
forced, and when of his personal knowledge, or by report or 
complaint from any resident of the city, or by report or com- 
plaint as provided herein, a truant otficer believes that any child 
is unlawfully and habituallj'' absent from school and not other- 
wise receiving instruction as provided in section 439a as 
amended, he shall immediately investigate and render all 
service in his power, to compel such child to attend some pub- 
lic, parochial or private school which the person having control 
of the child shall designate, or if over 14 and under 16 years 
of age, to attend school or become regularly employed at home 
or elsewhere, and upon failure he shall serve a written notice 
as required in section 4 of this act and proceed as hereinafter 
provided against the person having charge of such child. And 
in all cities having less than 2,000 population by such ;Cen- 



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sus, and in all towns and villages the sheriff of the county, his 
under-sheriff and deputies shall be the truant officers, and it 
shall be the duty of all truant officers named in this section to 
enforce the provisions of this act as provided herein. (1907 
c. 446) 

Section 439cb. It shall be the duty of the school clerk of 
every school district, the clerks of boards of education, and 
the clerks of sub-districts, or other officers whose duty it is 
to take the school census under the law, at the time of taking 
the school census of their .respective districts, cities, or sub- 
districts, to make out three copies of such census reports, on 
blanks to be furnished by the state superintendent, and send 
one of such copies by mail, or otherwise to the proper super- 
intendent on or before the fifteenth day of July each year, and 
at the time of the opening of school in his district, he shall de- 
liver, with the register, a copy of such census report to the 
teacher employed in said district, and if the school consists 
of two or more departments the copy shall be placed in the 
hands of the principal. In case the district includes within 
its boundaries, territory lying in two or more counties it shall 
be the duty of the clerk of such district to make out separate 
copies of the census reports for each part of said joint dis- 
trict, and forward the same to the proper superintendents; 
provided that in all cities having a population of 2,000 or more 
the clerk of the board of education or other officer, whose duty 
it is to take the school census shall not be required to furnish 
copies of the census returns to the county superintendent, city 
superintendent or teachers. Said clerks of boards of educa- 
tion and other officers who shall have the care and custody of 
the school census returns, shall Jiave their offices open at all 
reasonable hours, and allow and assist superintendents, teach- 
ers, and truant officers to examine and secure information from 
the school census reports on file in their offices, that may, in 
any way, aid in the enforcement of the provisions of this act. 
All teachers in public schools except teachers in high schools, 
shall at the request of the proper superintendent, while school 
is in session report to him. Said report shall show the name 
of the school and its location, the name and address of the 
teacher, the number of months school is maintained during 
the year, the date of opening and closing of the school, the 
names and ages of all children enrolled in their respective 



feciiools between the ages of seven and fourteen and fonrteeii 
and sixteen, the names and post-office addresses of the par- 
ents or other persons having control of such children, the num- 
ber of the district and the name of the town, city, village and 
county in which said children reside, the distance such child 
o,r children reside from the schoolhouse in the district in which 
they live by the nearest traveled road, the number of days 
each such child was present and the number of days such child 
was absent during each month and such other reports re- 
quested by him, said repo,rts to be made on blanks to be fur- 
nished by the county, district or state superintendent. It shall 
1)6 the duty of every school clerk, or the clerk of the board of 
education to deliver to the teachers in the public schools a suffi- 
cient number of blanks as described above, to supply said 
teachers for one school year; provided that when there shall 
be enrolled and in attendance at parochial or private schools, 
children residing in a county o,r counties other than the one 
in which the schoolhouse is located, the teachers in such paro- 
chial or private schools may make the reports hereinbefore 
described to the county, district or city superintendent of the 
county, or the city in which the children between the ages of 
seven and fourteen and fourteen and sixteen so- attending, reside ; 
provided further that in districts that include within their bound- 
aries territory lying in two or more counties, or districts joint 
with cities having separate superintendents, it shall be the duty 
of the public school teachers in such joint districts to make sepa- 
rate reports as provided herein to the county, district or city 
superintendent of the county o,r city in which the children be- 
tween the ages of seven and fourteen. and fourteen and sixteen 
so attending reside; and provided that the teachers in cities of 
2,000 population or more shall not be required to make the re- 
port provided herein, except when called upon to do so by the 
proper county or city superintendent. All teachers of private 
and parochial schools shall keep a record embodying all the 
data enumerated in this section, and such record shall be open 
to the inspection of all truant officers specified in this act, at 
any and all reasonable times ; and provided that when called 
upon by any truant officer, or superintendent, the teachers in 
private or parochial schools may furnish in writing on blanks 
furnished by the truant officer or superintendent the above 
mentioned data in regard to any child or children between the 



ages of seven and fourteen and fourteen and sixteen who claim, 
o,r who are claimed to be in attendance upon said school; and 
every teacher in a public school shall, and every teacher in a 
private or parochial school may promptly notify the proper 
truant officer of any child whose attendance is habitually ir- 
regular; provided such irregularity is not excused by any pro- 
vision of this act. Any officer or teacher in a public school 
who shall fail or neglect to make the reports required by this 
section as required, or any teacher in a private or parochial 
school who shall fail to keep a record as required in this sec- 
tion shall be subject to a forfeiture of not less than five nor 
more than twenty-five dollars for each such failure or neglect, 
said forfeiture to be sued for by any voter of the district where 
such officer resides, or where such teacher is employed, and 
recovered in the same manner other forfeitures are sued for 
and recovered under the "Wisconsin statutes; one-half of the 
amount of the forfeiture to be paid to the voter bringing the 
action and the other half to be paid into the school district 
treasury of the district where such offender resides. (1907 c. 446) 

County Superintendents to report to Truant Officers and to 
the CDmmissioner of Industrial Statistics. 

Section 439cc. 1. It shall be the duty of the county, district 
and city superintendents, upon receiving the reports and in- 
formation as provided in the preceding sections, to compare 
carefully the reports of attendance and enrollment, with the 
repo,rts of the last school census on file in his office, and ascer- 
tain therefrom the names of all children who are not comply- 
ing with the provisions of sections 439a to 439cd, inclusive, and 
it shall be the duty of such superintendents to report the names 
of such children, together with the names and addresses of the 
parents or those having control of such children to the commis- 
sioner of labor and industrial statistics at Madison, upon blanks 
furnished for that purpose, and to the proper truant officer of 
the county, district or city. The truant officer shall immediately 
upon receipt of such report, or when he obtains information of 
delinquencies, notify by registered mail, or by the service of 
notice in the same manner as provided for the service of sum- 
mons in a civil case in a justice court, the parent or the per- 
son having control of such child o,r children, to cause such 
cliild or children to be sent to some public, parochial or private 



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school within five days from the date notice is deposited, prop- 
erly addressed in the post-office, if notice is served by regis- 
tered mail, or five days from the date of the personal service 
of said notice. 

2. The notice shall inform the parent or other person in 
parental relation that the law requires that all children be- 
tween the ages of seven and fourteen and between the ages of 
fourteen and sixteen, if not regularly employed as provided 
by sections 1728a to 1728j ; inclusive, are to be in regular attend- 
ance at some school as provided in section 439a. It shall be the 
duty of all truant officers, after having given the notice here- 
inbefore described, to determine whether the parent or other 
person in parental relation has complied with the notice, and 
in case of failure to so comply, he shall immediately notify the 
commissioner of labor and industrial statistics of such failure, 
and within three days after having knowledge of or having 
been notified thereof, make complaint against said parent or 
person in parental relation having the legal charge and control 
of such child or children, before any justice of the peace in the 
county, where such party resides. 

3. Provided, that in counties where the criminal jurisdic- 
tion of the justice of the peace has been abolished, the court 
or courts now having such powers, shall have jurisdiction in 
cases brought under the provisions of sections 439a to 439cd, in- 
clusive, for such refusal or neglect to send such child or children 
to some school as provided in sections 439a to 439cd, inclusive, 
and said justice of the peace or other court shall issue a war- 
rant on said complaint and shall proceed to hear and determine 
the same, in the same manner as provided by statute fo,r other 
criminal cases under his jurisdiction. All truant officers or 
other officers having the power of truant officers shall have the 
power to apprehend without warrant, any child or children 
found violating the provisions of sections 439a. to 439cd, inclu- 
sive, and cause such child or children to be placed in some public, 
parochial or private school. It shall be the duty of all school 
officers, superintendents, teachers or other persons to render 
such assistance and furnish such information as they may have 
at their command, to aid truant officers in the performance of 
their duties. (1911 c. 421) 



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Compensation of Truant Officers. 

Section 439cd. Truant officers in cities of 2,000 population 
or more shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by 
the boards of education of such cities or boards having sim- 
ilar powers. When the sheriff, under-sheriff, and his depu- 
ties are acting as truant officers as provided herein, they shall 
be pai.d the same fees as provided for such officers in criminal 
actions brought under the laws of this state, and in counties 
where the sheriff and deputies are paid an annual salary no 
extra compensation shall be allowed. (1907 c. 446) 

County and City Superintendents to Report Monthly to the 
Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics. 

Section 439ee. Each county and city superintendent of 
schools shall report to the bureau of labor and industrial 
statistics within ten days after the close of each month, com- 
mencing with the month of September and concluding with 
the month of June in each year, the name of each child re- 
siding in the county, district, or city under his supervision 
who during said month has not complied with the provisions 
of sections 439, 439a, 439b, 439eb, 439cc, or 439cd, of the stat- 
utes, and the name and post-office address of the parent or 
guardian of such child. (1911 c. 542) 



CONTINUATION AND EVENING SCHOOLS. 

Section 1728c — 1. 1. Whenever any evening school, contin- 
uation classes, industrial school or commercial school, shall be 
established in any town, village or city in this state for minors 
between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, working under per- 
mit as now provided by law, every such child, residing within 
any town, village or city in which any such school is established, 
shall attend such school not less than five hours per week for 
six months in each year, until such child becomes sixteen years 
of age, and every employer shall allow all minor employes over 
fourteen and under sixteen years of age a reduction in hours of 
work of not less than the number of hours the minor is by this 
section required to attend school. {1911 c. 660) 



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CHILD LABOR LAW. 

Section 1728a. 1. No child between the ages of fourteen and 
sixteen years shall be employed, required, suffered or permitted 
to work at any time in any factory or workshop, store, hotel, 
restaurant, bakery, mercantile establishment, laundry, telegraph, 
telephone or public messenger service, or the delivery of any 
merchandise or at any gainful occupation, or employment, di- 
rectly or indirectly, unless there is first obtained from the com- 
missioner of labor, state factory inspector o,r any assistant fac- 
tory inspector or from the judge of the county court or mu- 
nicipal court or f,rom the judge of a juvenile court where such 
child resides, a written permit authorizing the employment of 
such child within such time or times as the said commissioner 
of labor, state factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, 
county judge, municipal judge, or judge of a juvenile court 
may fix ; providing, that such times shall not conflict with those 
designated in subsection 1, of section 1728c, and that no officer 
herein mentioned shall have power to delegate the duty of 
granting permits to any subordinate officer or other person. 

2. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, 
required, suffered or permitted to work at adjusting any belt or 
in oiling or assisting in oiling, wiping or cleaning any machin- 
ery when the same is in motion or in operating or assisting in 
operating or taking material from any circular or band saw, or 
any cross-cut saw or slasher or other cutting or pressing machine, 
from which material is taken from behind, wood-shaper, wood- 
jointer, planer, sandpaper or wood-polishing machine, picker 
machine, carding machine or machines used in picking wool, 
cotton, hair or any upholstering material, cylinder or job presses, 
dough brakes or cracker machinery of any description, laundry 
machinery, emery or polishing wheel for polishing metal or wood 
turning machine or stamping machine in sheet metal and tin- 
ware manufacturing, or boring or drill presses or stamping ma- 
chine in washer and nut factory, stamping machine in lace, 
paper and leather manufacturing, corrugating rolls in roofing or 
washboard factories, burnishing machines in any tannery or 
leather manufactory, wire or iron straightening machinery, roll- 
ing mill machinerj^, punchers or shears or washing, grinding or 



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mixing mill of calender rolls in rubber manufacturing, nor shall 
any sucli child be employed at or assist in sewing belts in any 
capacity, or in the manufacture of paints, colors or white lead, 
or in the manufacture of any composition in which dangerous 
or poisonous acids are used, or occupation causing dust, in in- 
jurious quantities, or in the manufacture or preparing of com- 
positions of dangerous or poisonous dyes, or in the manufacture 
or preparing of compositions with dangerous or poisonous gases, 
or in the manufacture or preparation of compositions of lye, or 
in which the quantity thereof is injurious to health, or on scaf- 
folding or on a ladder o,r in heavy work in the building trades, 
or in the manufacture of any goods for immoral purposes, nor 
in any tobacco warehouse, cigar or other factory where tobacco 
is manufactured or prepared or as pin boys in bowling alleys, 
or in any theatre or concert hall, or in operating any steam 
boiler or steam generating apparatus, or in any other employ- 
ment dangerous to life or limb, injurious to the health or de- 
praving to the morals of such child ; nor shall any female child 
under sixteen years of age be employed in any capacity where 
such employment compels her to remain standing constantly. 

3. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed, 
required, suffered or permitted to work at any time in any fac- 
tory, manufacturing establishment or workshop, store, hotel, 
restaurant or bakery, mercantile establishment, laundry, tele- 
graph, telephone or public messenger service, delivery or mer- 
chandise or at any gainful occupation or employment, directly 
or indirectly, except as provided in this section. 

4. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed, 
required, permitted or suffered to work at any gainful occupa- 
tion or employment at any time except that during the vacation 
of the public or equivalent school in the town, district or cit}'' 
where any child between the ages of twelve and fourteen years 
resides, it may be employed in any store, office, mercantile estab- 
lishment, warehouse, telegraph, telephone or public messenger ser- 
vice in the town, district or city where it resides and not elsewhere ; 
provided that it shall have first obtained a permit in the same 
manner and under the same conditions set forth for employ- 
ment during the regular session of the school, except that for such 
vacation permit no proof of educational qualification shall be 
necessary. {1911 c. 479) 



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Section 1728a — 1. No child under sixteen years of age shall 
1)6 employed, required, suffered or permitted to play on any 
musical instrument, or to sing or perform in a circus, theatrical 
or musical exhibition, concert or festival, or in any public place, 
unless there is first obtained from the commissioner of labor, 
state factory inspector, or assistant factory inspector, county 
judge, municipal judge or the judge of a juvenile court where 
the child resides, if such child is a resident of this state, and by 
a county judge, municipal judge, or judge of a juvenile court of 
this state if such child is not a resident of the state, a written 
permit authorizing the appearance of such child at such places, 
at times as the said commissioner of labor, state factory inspector 
or any assistant factory inspector, county judge, municipal 
judge or judge of a juvenile court may fix; provided, that it 
appears to the satisfaction of such commissioner of labor, state 
factory inspector or any assistant factory inspector, county 
judge, municipal judge or judg^e of a juvenile court, that the 
appearance of such child shall not be detrimental to its morals, 
health, safety, welfare of opportunities for education equivalent 
to that of the common schools ; provided, also, that a child under 
fourteen years of age shall be accompanied by a parent or guard- 
ian, approved by the said commissioner of labor, state factory 
inspector or any assistant factory inspector, county judge, muni- 
cipal judge or judge of a juvenile court. But the provisions of 
this section shall not prevent the education of children in music 
or their employment as musicians, or participants, in a church, 
chapel, school or school exhibition or any home talent exhibi- 
tion given by people of the local community. {1911 c. 479) 

Section 1728a — 2. No child under sixteen years of age shall 
be employed, permitted or suffered to work in or about any store, 
brewery, distillery, bottling establishment, hotel, barroom, salocn, 
saloon dining room or restaurant, or any place in connection with 
a saloon or a similar place of any name, or in or abour any dance 
hall, bowling alley, pool room, beer garden or similar place of 
any name in which strong, spirituous or malt liquors are made, 
bottled, sold or given away. {1911 c. 479) 

Section 1728b. 1. Every person, firm or corporation, agent 
or manager of any firm or corporation employing minors in any 
factory or workshop, store, office, hotel, restaurant, bakery, mer- 
cantile establishment, laundry, telegraph, telephone or public 
messenger service within this state shall keep a register in the 



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place where such minor is employed, and subject at all times to 
the inspection of any factory inspector, o,r assistant factory in- 
spector, or truant officer, in which register shall be recorded the 
name, age, date of birth and place of residence, of every child 
employed, permitted or suffered to work therein, under the age 
of sixteen years. 

2. No person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of any 
firm or corporation shall hire or employ, permit or suffer to work 
in any mercantile establishment, factory or workshop, store, of- 
fice, hotel, restaurant, bakery, laundry, telegraph, telephone, or 
public messenger service, any child under sixteen years of age, 
unless there is first provided and placed on file in such mercan- 
tile establishment, factory, workshop, store, office, hotel, restau- 
rant, bakery, laundry, telegraph, telephone or public messenger 
service office, a permit granted by the commissioner of labor, state 
factory inspector, or any assistant factory inspector, or county 
judge, municipal judge or judge of a juvenile court of the 
county where such child resides. {1911c. 479) 

Section 1728c. 1. No child under the age of sixteen years, 
shall be employed, required, permitted or suffered to work at 
any gainful ocupation for more than forty-eight hours, in any 
one week, nor more than eight hours in any one day, or before 
the hour of seven o'clock in the morning or after the hour of 
six o'clock in the evening, nor more than six days in any one 
week. A lunch period of not less than thirty minutes shall be 
allowed during each day. Provided, nothing in sections 1728a 
to 1728 j, inclusive, shall be construed to interfere with the em- 
ployment of children as provided in sections 1728a — 1 and 1728u 
of the statutes. 

2. Each employer shall post in a conspicuous place in each of 
the several departments in or for which minors are employed, a 
list on a printed form furnished by the bureau of labor and in- 
dustrial statistics or factory inspection department, stating the 
names, ages and the hours required of each child during each 
day of the week, the hours of commencing and stopping work, 
and the hours when the time or times allowed for dinner or 
other meals begin and end. {1911 c. 479) 

Section 1728d. 1. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of 
labor, the factory inspector and every assistant factory inspector 
to enforce all the provisions of the statutes regulating or rela- 
tive to child labor, and to prosecute violations of the same before 



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aHy justice of the peace or other court of competent jurisdic- 
tion in this state. It shall he the duty of the said commissioner 
of labor and every factory inspector and assistant factory in- 
spector and truant officer, and they are hereby authorized and 
empowered to visit and inspect, at all reasonable times, and as 
often as possible, all places covered by sections 1728a to 1728 j, 
inclusive. The factory inspector and assistant factory inspector 
shall have the power of truant officers to enforce all legal require- 
ments relating to school attendance. 

2. The justices of the peace in the various counties of the state 
of "Wisconsin shall have criminal jurisdiction of actions brought 
for violations of all statutes regulating or relative to child labor, 
notwithstanding any statute depriving such justices of the 
peace in any county of such jurisdiction. Nothing contained 
herein, however, shall deprive the municipal courts and other 
courts of record of concurrent jurisdiction, nor shall anything 
contained herein be construed to give justices of the peace in 
cities of the first class jurisdiction of such actions. {1911 c. 479) 

Section 1728e. 1. The commissioner of labor, the factory 
inspector or assistant factory inspectors, or county judge, mu- 
nicipal judge or judge of a juvenile court, may refuse to grant 
permits in the case of children who may seem physically unable 
to perform the labor at which they may be employed. 

2. All permits provided for under sections 1728a to 1728 j, 
inclusive, shall be issued upon blanks furnished by the commis- 
sioner of labor and shall be made out in duplicate. One of such 
duplicates shall be forthwith returned to the commissioner of 
labor, together with a detailed statement of the character and 
substance of the evidence offered prior to the issue of such per- 
mit. Such statement so forwarded shall be upon blanks fur- 
nished by the commissioner of labor, and shall contain such de- 
tails as to such evidence, and shall fully reveal its character and 
substance as indicated in such blank. 

3. Whenever it shall appear to the commissioner of labor that 
any permit has been improperly or illegally issued, or that the 
physical or moral welfare of such child would be best served by 
the revocation of the permit he may forthwith, without notice, 
revoke the same, and shall by registered mail notify the person 
employing such child and the child holding such permit of such 
revocation. 



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4. Nothing contained in sections 1728a to 1728j, inclusive, 
shall be construed to forbid any child from being employed in 
agricultural pursuits, nor to require a permit to be obtained for 
such child. {1911 c. 479) 

Section 1728f. 1. No child under the age of eighteen years 
shall be employed in or about any blast furnaces, docks, wharves, 
in the outside erection and repair of electric wires; in the run- 
ning or management of elevators, lifts or hoisting machines ; in 
oiling or cleaning hazardous or dangerous machinery in motion ; 
switch tending, gate tending or track repairing; as brakeman, 
fireman, engineer, motorman, conductor, telegraph operator, 
upon railroads; as pilot, fireman, or engineer upon boats and 
vessels engaged in the transportation of passengers or merchan- 
dise ; in or about establishments where nitroglycerine, dynamite, 
dualin, guncotton, gunpowder or other high or dangerous ex- 
plosive is manufactured, compounded or stored ; or in dipping, 
dyeing or packing matches; or in any factory in operating or 
using any emery, tripoli, rouge, corundum, stone carborundum 
or any abrasive or emery polishing or buffing wheel, where arti- 
cles of the baser materials or of iridium are manufactured. 

2. No minor under the age of eighteen, nor any female, shall 
be employed in or about any mine or quarry. {1911 c. 479) 

Section 1728g. The words "manufacturing establishment," 
the word "factory" or the word "workshop," as used in sec- 
tion 1728a to 1728J, inclusive, shall each be construed to mean 
any place where goods or products are manufactured or re- 
paired, dyed, cleaned or assorted, stored or packed, in whole or 
in part, for sale, for wages, or directly or indirectly, for gain or 
profit. {1911c. 479) 

Section 1728h. 1. Any person, firm or corporation, agent or 
manager of any firm or corporation who, whether for himself or 
for such firm or corporation, or by himself or through agents, 
servants or foreman violates or fails to comply with any of the 
provisions of sections 1728a, 1728b, 1728c, 1728d, 1728e, 1728f, 
1728g, 1728h, 17281, 1728a— 1, 1728a— 2, 1728a— 3, 1728a— 4, 
1728a — 5 or 1728a — 6, or hinders or delays the commissioner of 
labor, the factory inspector or assistant factory inspectors, or 
truant officers, or any or either of them, in the performance of 
their duties or refuses to admit or locks out any such officer 
from any place required to be inspected by said sections, shall 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 



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thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor mote 
than one hundred dollars for each offense, or imprisoned in the 
county jail not longer than thirty days. 

2. Any corporation which, by its agents, officers or servants 
violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of the 
sections specified in subsection 1 shall be liable to the above 
penalties, which may be recovered against such corporations 
in action for debt or assumpsit brought before any justice of the 
peace or other court of competent jurisdiction. 

3. Any person, being the owner or lessee of any opera house, 
theatre or moving picture house, or any similar place of any 
name, or having in whole or in part, the management or control 
thereof, shall be responsible for any violation of sections 1728a 
to 1728 j, inclusive, on the premises, of such opera house, theatre 
or moving picture house or similar place of any name. 

4. Any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of any 
corporation who, whether for himself or for such firm or corpora- 
tion, or by himself or through agents, servants or foreman fails 
to return the employment permit of any child in violation of 
section 1728a — 6, shall be liable in action to such child whose 
permit is not returned, for two dollars for each day during 
which such failure continues. 

5. The failure of any person, firm or corporation, agent or 
manager of any firm or corporation, to produce for inspection to 
the commissioner of labor, factory inspector or any assistant 
factory inspector, truant officer, the employment permit herein- 
before described, shall be prima facie evidence of illegal employ- 
ment of minor before any justice of the peace or other court of 
competent jurisdiction. The presence of smy minor in any fac- 
tory, workshop, place of employment or in or about any mine, 
or the presence of any minor at any time other than those on the 
posted hours of labor, as hereinbefore provided, or in any estab- 
lishment employed at any work listed as dangerous or forbidden 
employments, shall be prima facie evidence of the employment 
of such child. (1911 c. 479) 

Section 1728i. Any parent or guardian, who suffers or per- 
mits a child to be employed, at any gainful occupation, di- 
rectly or indirectly, or suffered or permitted to work in viola- 
tion of sections 1728 to 1728j, inclusive, shall be guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less 



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than five nor more than twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment 
in the county jail for not longer than thirty days. {1911 c. 479) 

Section 2. There are added to the statutes four new sec- 
tions to read Section 1728a — 3. 1. The permit required by 
section 1728a of the statutes shall state the name, the date 
and place of birth of the child, and describe the color of hair 
and eyes, the height and weight, and any distinguishing facial 
marks of such child, and that the papers required in subsec- 
tion 2 hereof have been duly examined, approved and filed. 

2. The following evidence, records and papers shall be filed 
before such permit is issued : 

(1) Evidence showing that such child is fourteen years of 
age in one of the following forms: 

(a) A duly attested transcript of the birth certificate, filed 
as prescribed by law with the register of vital statistics, or 
other officer charged with the duty of recording births. 

(b) A certificate of a person in charge of a public school in 
the state or elsewhere, having a course of not less than eight 
years, or of a school in the state other than a public school, 
having a substantially equivalent course of study of not less 
than eight years' duration, in which school a record of the 
attendance of such child has been kept, shovving that such 
child is a graduate of such school, and that according to the 
records kept in such school such child is at least fourteen 
years of age; or 

(c) A passport or a duly attested transcript of a certificate 
of baptism, 'showing the date and place of baptism of such child. 

(d) If such proof does not exist or cannot be secured as 
provided in subdivisions (a), (b) or (c), of subdivision (1) 
hereof, then such proof as may be satisfactory to the official 
issuing such permit may be filed in lieu thereof. 

(2) A certificate of the superintendent of schools or the prin- 
eipa] of the school last attended by the child, or in the 
absence of both of the aforementioned persons, a certificate 
of the clerk of the school board, showing that such child is 
more than fourteen years of age, and stating also the date of 
the birth of such child and the number of years it has at- 
tended school. Such certificate shall contain the further state- 
ment that such child has attended the public school, or some 
other school having a substantially equivalent course, as re- 
quired by law, within the twelve months next preceding the 



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date of sucli certificate or next preceding the fourteenth 
birthday of such child ; that such child is able to read 
and write simple sentences in the English language, and is 
familiar with the fundamental operations in arithmetic up to 
and including fractions, and that it has received during such 
one-year period, instruction in spelling, reading, writing, Eng- 
lish grammar and geograpln'; or in lieu of such statement 
relative to its educational attainments, that such child has 
passed successfully the fifth grade in the public school, or in 
some school having a substantially equivalent course, or that it 
has attended school for at least seven years. It shall be the duty 
of such superintendent, principal or clerk to issue certificate 
upon receipt of any application in behalf of any child entitled 
thereto. 

(3) A letter written on such regular letter head or other 
business paper used by the person, stating the intention of 
such person, firm or corporation to employ such child, and 
signed by such person, firm or corporation, or by some one duly 
authorized by them. {1911 c. 479) 

Section 1728a — 4. 1. For the purposes of sections 1728a to 
1728J, inclusive, the commissioner of labor, factory inspector, 
any assistant factory inspector, truant officer, any police officer 
or any private citizen may make complaint of the violation of 
any provision of sections 1728a to 1728j, inclusive. 

2. When complaint is made by truant officer, police officer or 
any private citizen to the commissioner of labor, state factory 
inspector or any assistant factory inspector, the commissioner 
of labor shall investigate or cause to be investigated such com- 
plaint, and if pursuant to any such investigation, a violation 
of any of the provisions of sections 1728a to 1728j, inclusive, 
shall be found, the commissioner of labor shall prosecute or 
cause to be prosecuted any such violation. {1911 c. 479) 

Section 1728a — 5. In cities of the first, second or third class 
no person under the age of twenty-one years shall be employed or 
permitted to work as a messenger for a telegraph or messenger 
company in the distribution, transmission or delivery of mes- 
sages or goods before six o'clock in the morning and after eight 
o'clock in the evening of any day. {1911 c. 479) 

Section 1728a. — 6. 1. Every person, firm or corporation, 
agent or manager of any firm or corporation, employing mi- 
nors in any factory or workshop, store, office, hotel, mercantile 



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establishment, laundry, telegraph, telephone or public mes- 
senger service within this state, in addition to tiling the cer- 
tificate of intention to employ with the commissioner of labor, 
state factory inspector or any assistant factory inspector, 
shall file with the officer signing such permit, a statement of 
actual employment of such minor, the date of employment, 
and that the necessary permit has been duly received and 
filed, shall keep said permits on file in the same place where 
such minor is employed, and subject at all times to the inspec- 
tion of the commissioner of labor, state factory inspector or 
assistant factory inspector, and shall post a list of said em- 
ployes with said information at or near the principal entrance 
to the factory, or other building where such children are em- 
ployed. It is further provided that upon the termination of 
employment of any minor, said employer shall return within 
twenty-four hours the permit for employment of such minor to 
the person and place, designated by the commissioner of labor, 
with a statement of reasons for the termination of said employ- 
ment. 

2. Every person, firm or corporation, desiring to become the 
employer of children under the age of eighteen years, shall 
file with the commissioner of labor a statement of this fact, in 
order that a special inspection of his factory, workshop, bowling 
alley, store, hotel or mercantile establishment, restaurant, bakery, 
laundry, telegraph, telephone or public messenger service may 
be made or caused to be made by the commissioner of labor. 
{1911 c. 479) 



HOURS OF LABOR FOR WOMEN. 

Section 1728 — 1. 1. No female shall be employed or be 
permitted to work in any manufacturing, mechanical or mer- 
cantile establishment, laundry or restaurant, or confectionery 
store, or telegraph or telephone office or exchange, or by any 
express or transportation company, in this state, more than ten 
hours during any one day, or more than fifty-five hours in any 
one week. The hours may be so arranged as to permit the em- 
ployment of females at any time, but they shall not work more 
than ten hours during the twenty-four hours of any one day, 
nor more than fifty-five hours during one week. If, however, 



any part of a female's daily employment is performed between 
the hours of eight o'clock p. m. and six o'clock a. m. of the 
following day, all the employment shall be considered night 
work, and no such female so employed at night work shall be 
employed or permitted to work thereat more than eight hours 
in any twenty-four hours, nor more than forty-eight hours 
during one week. If any such female is employed not more 
than one night in the week (after eight o'clock as herein pro- 
vided), then such female may be permitted to work fifty-five 
hours in any such week. Provided, that at least one hour for 
dinner be allowed each female during her working period, but 
no part of such hour shall be considered as a part of the per- 
mitted period of daily employment. 

2. Every employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every 
room, where such females are employed, a printed notice stat- 
ing the hours of commencing and stopping such work, the 
time allowed for dinner or other meals, and the maximum num- 
ber of hours any female employe is permitted to work in any 
one day. 

3. The employment of any female in any such place or es- 
tablishment, as defined in subsection 1, of this section, at any 
time other than those of the posted hours of labor, as herein- 
before provided for, shall be prima facie evidence of a vio- 
ialion of this act. 

4. Any person violating an};- provision of this section slu'.ll 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than 
one hundred dollars. {1911 c. 548) 

Employment of persons between 14 and 16 years of age in 
certain cases. 

Section 1728c — 1. 1. "Whenever any evening school, contin- 
uation classes, industrial school or commercial school, shall be 
established in any toAvn, village or city in this state for minors 
between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, Avorking under per- 
mit as now provided by law, every such child, residing within 
any town, village or city in AAdiich any such school is established, 
shall attend such school not less than five hours per Aveek for 
six months in each year, until such child becomes sixteen years 
of age, and every employer shall alloAV all minor employes over 
fourteen and under sixteen years of age a reduction in hours 



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of work of not less than the number of hours the minor is by 
this section required to attend school. {1911 c. 660) 

Section 1728e — 1. 2. The tctal number of hours spent by 
such minors at work and in the before-mentioned schools shall 
together not exceed the total number of hours of work for which 
minors over fourteen and under sixteen years of age may by 
law be employed, except when the minor shall attend school a 
greater number of hours than is required by la^v, in which case 
the total number of hours may be increased by the excess of 
the hours of school attendance over the minimum prescribed by 
law. 

3. Employers shall allow the reduction in hours of work at 
the time when the classes which the minor is by law required 
to attend, are held whenever the working time and the class 
time coincide. 

4. Any violation of this section shall be punished as is pro- 
vided in the ease of a violation of section 1728a of the statutes. 
{1911 c. 505) 

Employment of illiterate minors in certain cases. 

Section 1728a — 11. No person shall employ a minor over 
fourteen years of age in any city, village or town in which a 
public evening school or continuation school, for the industry in 
which the minor is to work, is maintained, unless he receives 
and places on file a written permit issued by the commissioner 
of labor, state factory inspector or any assistant factory inspec- 
tor, or from the judge of a juvenile court where such child re- 
sides, authorizing the employment of the minor, as provided in 
section 1728b of the statutes, and certifying either to his ability 
to read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the Eng- 
lish language, or, that he is a regular attendant at the public 
evening school or continuation school. {1911 c. 522) 

Section 1728a — 12. No parent, guardian or custodian shall 
permit a minor over fourteen years of age who has not the 
certificate referred to in section 1728a — 11 to be employed. 
{1911 c. 522) 

Section 1728a — 13. Any minor over fourteen years of 
age, required by section 1728a— 11 to attend an evening school 
or continuation school, shall furnish to his employer each week 
during its session a record showing that he is a regular attendant 
at the evening school or continuation school. The employer 



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shall file all records of attendance with the minor's permit to 
work, and no minor, subject to sections 1728a — 11 to 1728a — 17, 
inclusive, shall be employed unless the records of attendance 
yr absence for valid cause during the previous week be on file. 
{1911 c. 522) 

Section 1728a — 14. Upon presentation by a minor of a cer- 
tificate signed by a registered practicing physician, showing 
that his physical condition, or the distance necessary to be trav- 
eled, would render the required school attendance, in addition 
to his daily labor, prejudicial to his health, the commissioner of 
labor, state factory inspector or any assistant factory inspector, 
may issue a permit authorizing his employment for such period 
as he may determine. {1911 c. 522) 

Section 1728a — 15. No permit issued under section 1728a 
shall excuse any minor from attendance at evening school, or 
evening continuation school. {1911 c. 522) 

Section 1728a — 16. Any person, firm or corporation, agent 
or manager of any corporation, who whether for himself or for 
such firm or corporation, or by himself or through agents, servants 
or foremen, shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provi- 
sions of sections 1728a — 11 to 1728a — 14, inclusive, of the stat- 
utes, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- 
tion thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one 
hundred dollars for each offense. Any corporation which by its 
agents, officers or servants shall violate or fail to comply with 
any of the provisions of sections 1728a — 11 to 1728a — 15 inclu- 
sive, shall be liable to the same penalty which may be recovered 
against such corporation in action for debt or assumpsit, 
brought before any court of competent jurisdiction. {1911 c. 
522) 

Section 1728a — 17. Any parent or guardian who suffers or 
permits a minor to be employed, or suffered or permitted to 
work in violation of sections 1728a — 12 and 1728a — 13 of the 
statutes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
thereof, shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty- 
five dollars. {1911 c, 522) 



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APPRENTICESHIP LAW. 

Section 2377. Every contract or agreement entered int© 
between a minor and employer, by which the minor is to learn a 
trade, shall be known as an indenture, and shall comply with the 
provisions of sections 2378 to 2386, inclusive, of the statutes. 
Every minor entering into such contract shall be known as an 
apprentice. {1911 c. 347) 

Section 2378. Any minor may, by the execution of an in- 
denture, bind himself as hereinafter provided, and such inden- 
ture may provide that the length of the term of the apprentice 
shall depend upon the degree of efficiency reached in the work 
assigned, but no indenture shall be made for less than one year, 
and if the minor is less than eighteen years of age, the inden- 
ture shall in no case be for a period of less than two years. 
{1911 c. 347) 

Section 2379. Any person or persons apprenticing a minor 
or forming any contractual relation in the nature of an appren- 
ticeship, without complying with the provisions of sections 2377 
to 2387, inclusive, of the statutes, shall upon conviction thereof, 
be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one 
hundred dollars. {1911 c. 347) 

Section 2380. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of 
labor, the factory inspector or assistant factory inspectors to 
enforce the provisions of this chapter, and to prosecute violation? 
of the same before any court of competent jurisdiction in this 
state. {1911 c. 347) 

Section 2381. Every indenture shall be signed: 

(1) By the minor. 

(2) By the father; and if the father be dead or legally in- 
capable of giving consent or has abandoned his family, then 

(3) By the mother; and if both the father and mother be 
dead or legally incapable of giving consent, then 

(4) By the guardian of the minor, if any. 

(5) If there be no parent or guardian with authority to sign, 
then by two justices of the peace of the county of residence of 
the minor. 

(6) By the employer. 

Section 2382, Every indenture shall contain: 



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(1) The names of the parties. 

(2) The date of the birth of the minor. 

(3) A statement of the trade the minor is to be taught, and 
the time at which the apprenticeship shall begin and end. 

(4) An agreement stating the number of hours to be spent 
in work, and the number of hours to be spent in instruction. 
The total of such number of hours shall not exceed fifty-tive in 
any one week. 

(5) An agreement that the whole trade, as carried on by the 
employer, shall be taught, and an agreement as to the time to 
be spent at each process or machine. 

(6) An agreement between the employer and the apprentice 
that not less than five hours per week of the aforementioned fifty- 
five hours per week shall be devoted to instruction. Such in- 
struction shall include : 

(a) Two hours a week instruction in English, in citizen- 
ship, business practice, physiology, hygiene and the use of safety 
devices. 

(b) Such other branches as may be approved by the state 
board of industrial education. 

(7) A ^statement of the compensation to be paid the appren- 
tice. {1911 c. 347) 

Section 2383. The instruction specified in section 2382 may 
be given in a public school, or in such other manner as may be 
approved by the local board of industrial education, and if 
there be no local board, sub.ject to the approval of the state board 
of industrial education. Attendance at the public school, if any, 
shall be certified to by the teachers in charge of the courses, 
and failure to attend shall sub.iect the apprentice to the penalty 
of a loss of compensation for three hours for every hour such 
apprentice shall be absent without good cause. It shall be the 
duty of the school officials to co-operate for the enforcement 
of this chapter. {1911 c. 347) 

Section 2384. It shall be lawful to include in the indenture 
or agreement an article stipulatilJg that during such period of 
the year, as the public schools shall not be in session, the em- 
ployer and the apprentice may be released from those portions 
of the indenture Avhich affect the instruction to be given. {1911 
c. 347) 

Section 2385. If either party to an indenture shall fail to 
perform any of the stipulations, he shall forfeit not less than 



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ten nor more than fifty dollars on complaint, the collection of 
which may be made by the commissioner of labor, factory in- 
spector or assistant factory inspectors in any court of competent 
jurisdiction in this state. Any court of competent jurisdiction 
may in its discretion also annul the indenture. Nothing herein 
prescribed shall deprive the employer of the right to dismiss any 
apprentice who has willfully violated the rules and regulations 
applying to all workmen. {1911 c. 347) 

Section 2386. The employer shall give a bonus of not less 
than fifty dollars to the apprentice, on the expiration of tho 
term of the indenture, and also a certificate stating the term 
of the indenture. {1911 c. 347) 

Section 2387. A certified copy of every indenture by which 
any minor may be apprenticed shall be filed by the employer 
with the state commissioner of labor. {1911 c. 347) 



TRADE SCHOOLS. 

Section 926 — 22. Any city in the state of Wisconsin or any 
school district having within its limits a city desiring to estab- 
lish, conduct and maintain a school or schools for the purpose 
of giving practical instruction in the useful trades to young 
men having attained the age of fourteen years and young women 
having attained the age of fourteen years as a part of the public 
school system of such city, is empowered to do so by comply- 
ing with the provisions of sections 926 — 23 to 926—30, inclusive, 
slatutes of 1898. (1909 c. 4^V 

Section 926 — 23. Such trade school or schools shall be under 
the supervision and control of the school boards of the respec- 
tive cities or school districts in which they may be located. 
{1907 c. 122) 

Section 926 — 24. The school board of every such city or 
school district is given full power and authority to establish, take 
over and maintain a trade school or schools, equip the same with 
proper machinery and tools, employ a competent instructor or 
instructors, and give practical instruction in one or more of 
the common trades. Such a trade school shall not be main- 
tained, however, unless there be an average enrollment of at 
lea^t thirty scholars. {1907 c. 122) 



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Section 926 — 25. Whenever any school board shall have es- 
tablished or taken over an established trade school, such school 
board may prepare the courses of study, employ instructors, pur- 
chase all machinery, tools and supplies, purchase or lease suit- 
able grounds or buildings for the use of such school and exer- 
cise the same authority over such school which it now has over 
the schools under its charge. {1907 c. 122) 

Section 926 — 26. Whenever any school board shall have es- 
tablished or taken over an already established trade school or 
schools, it may appoint an advisory committee to be known as 
the committee on trade schools, consisting of five citizens not 
members of the school board, each of whom is experienced in 
one or more of the trades to be taught in the school or schools, 
to assist in the administration of the trade school or schools 
located in that city, which committee shall be appointed by the 
president of such school board with the approval of the majority 
of the board. Such committee shall have authority, subject to 
the approval and ratification of the school board, to prepare 
courses of study, employ or dismiss instructors, purchase machin- 
ery, tools and supplies, and purchase or rent suitable grounds 
or buildings for the use of such trade schools. When any such 
committee on trade schools is appointed, two of its original 
members shall be appointed for the term of one year, two for 
the term of two years, and one for the term of three years, and 
thereafter, as the terms of these members so appointed expire, 
their successors shall be appointed each for the term of three 
years. In case of any vacancy during the term of any member 
of said committee, said school board shall fill such vacancy by 
appointment for such unexpired term. {1909 c. 155) 

Section 926 — 27. Students attending any such trade school 
may be required to pay for all material consumed by them in 
their work in such school at cost prices or in lieu thereof the 
school board may establish a fixed sum to be paid by each stu- 
dent in each course which sum shall be sufficient to cover, as 
nearly as may be, the cost of the material to be consumed in 
such course ; any manufactured articles made in such school may 
be disposed of at the discretion of the school board, and the pro- 
ceeds shall be paid into the trade school fund. {1907 c. 122) 

Section 926 — 28. Whenever any such school board shall 
have decided to establish a trade school or schools, or to take 
over one already established, under the provisions of sections 



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926 — 22 to 926 — 30, inclusive, of the statutes, a tax, not exceed- 
ing three-tenths of a mill upon the dollar on the total assessed 
valuation of all property, real and personal, of such city, subject 
to taxation, shall be levied, upon the requisition of the school 
board, as other school taxes are levied in such city; the fund 
derived from such taxation shall be known as the trade school 
fund, shall be used in establishing and maintaining a trade 
school or trade schools in such city, shall not be diverted 
or used for any other purpose whatsoever, and may be disposed 
of and disbursed by the school board of such city in the same 
manner and pursuant to the same regulations governing the 
disposition and disbursement of regular school funds by such 
boards. {1911c. 101) 

Section 926 — 29. Any ,school board desiring to avail itself of 
the provisions of this act, may, before the trade school fund 
herein provided for becomes available, establish, take over, equip 
and maintain a trade school or schools out of the regular school 
funds which may be at the disposal of such school board pro- 
vided, however, that all moneys used for these purposes out of 
the regular school funds shall be refunded within three years 
from the trade school fund. {1907 c. 122) 

Section 926 — 30. 1. When the school board of any city of 
the second, third or fourth class, or the school board of anv 
school district having within its limits such a city, shall deter- 
mine to establish, take over, conduct or maintain such trade 
school, it shall publish notice of its intention so to do with a copy 
of the resolution or order expressing such determination once 
each week for four successive weeks in a newspaper published in 
said school district and shall take no further steps in said matter 
until the expiration of thirty days from the date of the first 
publication. 

2. If within such thirty days there shall be filed with the clerk 
of such city a petition signed by a number of electors of the 
school district equal to twenty per centum of the number of votes 
cast in said city at the last municipal election praying that the 
question of the establishment, taking over, conduct and mainte- 
nance of such trade school shall be submitted to the vote of the 
electors of such school district, the city clerk shall at the earliest 
opportunity lay such petition before the common council. The 
common council shall thereupon at its next regular meeting by 
resolution or ordinance direct the city clerk to call a special 



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election for the purpose of submitting such question to the elec- 
tors of such city and school district. 

3. Such election shall be noticed and conducted and convasscd 
in accordance Mdtli the provisions of section 943, statutes of 1898. 
All electors within the territory constituting such school district, 
qualified to vote at any election pertaining to school district mat- 
ters shall be entitled to vote. 

4. If any of said school districts shall be beyond the limits of 
such city, the city clerk shall immediately upon the passage of 
the resolution or ordinance by the city council ordering such 
election, transmit a copy thereof to the clerk of the town or 
towns of which such territory is constituted. The clerk or clerks 
of said towns shall thereupon cause a notice of such election to 
be given and such election to be held and canvassed as provided 
in section 943. 

5. If a majority of the ballots cast in such school district 
shall be in favor of the establishment, taking over, conduct- 
ing or maintenance of such trade school, then such board shall 
proceed as heretofore provided to establish, take over, conduct 
and maintain such trade school. But if a majority shall vote 
against such proposition to establish, take over, conduct and main- 
tain a trade school, the board shall take no further steps towards 
such end. 

6. If no petition to submit such proposition to establish, 
take over or maintain a trade school to the vote of the electors 
shall be filed with the city clerk within thirty days after the 
first publication of the notice of the determination of the school 
board to take such action, then such school board may proceed 
as hereinbefore provided without submitting such proposition 
to the electors of the district. {1907 c. 122) 

Trade School and other Special funds may be raised by Spe- 
cial Tax in Cities. 

Section 925q — 163. The common council of such cities of the 
first class shall have power to levy annually, for the general city 
fund, exclusive of the amount required for all school purposes, 
and for the payment of interest and principal on the funded 
debt of the city, and other funds authorized by this section, a 
sufficient sum upon the total assessed valuation of all property, 
real and personal, in said city subject to taxation; also a suffi- 
cient sum for contingent fund ; also for a sewerage fund in each 



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sewerage district, a sum not exceeding nine-tenths of a mill upon 
the dollar of the total assessed valuation of all property, real and 
personal, in such sewerage district subject to taxation; also for 
the general sewerage fund for said city, a sufficient sum upon 
the total assessed valuation of property, real and personal, in 
said city, subject to taxation; also for other funds herein pro- 
vided for in lieu of ward funds hereby abolished, a further suffi- 
cient sum; provided, that all expenses, burdens and charges 
which are by law now chargeable to any ward fund shall be pro- 
vided for and paid out of the general fund except in so far as 
the same may be payable out of any other funds herein provided 
for; also for a park and boulevard fund, a sum not exceeding 
fifty-one one hundredths (.51) of a mill upon the dollar of the 
total assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, in 
said city, subject to taxation ; also for a civil service fund, a sum 
not exceeding seventeen-thousandths of a mill upon the dollar of 
the total assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, in 
said city, subject to taxation ; also for the historical museum 
fund, a sum not exceeding twelve-hundredths of a mill upon the 
dollar, of the total assessed valuation of all property, real and 
personal, in said city, subject to taxation; also for a public mu- 
seum fund, a sum not exceeding eight hundred fifty-seven ten- 
thousandths of a mill upon the dollar of the total assessed val- 
uation of all property, real and personal, in said city subject to 
taxation; also for a public library fund, a sum not exceeding 
two hundred sixty-four thousandths of a mill upon the dollar of 
the total assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, in 
said city, subject to taxation; also for an auditorium fund, not 
exceeding sixty-three thousandths of a mill, upon the dollar, of 
the total assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, in 
said city, subject to taxation; also for a street improvement 
fund, a sum not exceeding one mill upon the dollar of the total 
assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, in said 
city, subject to taxation ; provided, that this fund shall be a sep- 
arate and distinct fund and shall not be used or appropriated, 
directly or indirectly, for any other purpose than for street im- 
provements; provided, that whenever the common council shall 
have determined to levy a tax in said city for a permanent street 
improvement fund for the ensuing fiscal year, it shall be unlaw- 
ful for such common council to issue municipal bonds for said 
purpose in the same fiscal year ; also for a docking and dredging 



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fund, a sum not exceeding tliirty-five hundredths uf a mill upon 
the dollar of the total assessed valuation of all property, real 
and personal, in said city, subject to taxation; provided, that 
this fund shall he a separate and distinct fund, and shall not 
be used or appropriated, directly or indirectly, for any other 
purpose than for docking and dredging; provided, that when- 
ever the common council shall have determined to levy a tax 
in said city for said docking and dredging fund for the ensuing 
fiscal year, it shall be unlawful for such common council to issue 
municipal bonds for said purpos3 in the same fiscal year; also 
for a trade school fund, a sum not exceeding three-tenths of a 
mill upon the dollar of the total assessed valuation of all prop- 
erty, real and personal, in said city, subject to taxation; and 
also for the support, maintenance and establishment of all the 
public schools, other than trade schools, in said city, for the next 
fiscal year, a further sum not exceeding three mills upon the 
dollar of the total assessed valuation of all property, real and 
personal, in said city, subject to taxation ; provided, further, that 
the aggregate amount of all taxes for all purposes levied by the 
common council and collected upon the city tax roll for munici- 
pal purposes under this section exclusive of all taxes for public 
school purposes, shall not, in the whole, for any one year, exceed 
ten (10) mills on the dollar of the total assessed valuation of all 
property, real and personal, in said city, subject to taxation; 
and also provided, that it shall not be lawful for the county 
board of supervisors in determining the amount to be raised by 
tax in the city for the support of common schools therein, for 
any one year, to fix an amount greater than the amount appor- 
tioned to said city, in the last apportionment of the income of 
the school fund of the state. {1911 c. 100) 

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State Board of Industrial Education, its Powers and Duties 
— Commercial, Industrial, Continuation and Evening 
Schools, Stout Institute, Etc. 

Section 553p — 1. 1. There is hereby created a state board 
of industrial education to be appointed by the governor. The 
board shall consist of six appointive members, three of whom 
shall be employers of labor and three of whom shall be skilled 
employes. The state superintendent of education and the dean 
of the extension department and the dean of the college of 



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engineering of the university of Wisconsin shall be ex officio 
members of this board. 

2. Each appointive member shall hold office for two years and 
shall receive traveling expenses and one hundred dollars per 
year. In the first appointments the governor shall designate 
three members to serve for one year and three members to serve 
for two years from the first day of July of the year in which 
the appointments are made. All appointments thereafter shall 
be for two years except appointments to fill vacancies, Avhich 
shall be for the unexpired portion of the term. 

3. Said board: (1) Shall have control over all state aid 
given under sections 553p — 1 to 553p — 15, inclusive; (2) Shall 
meet quarterly and at such other times as may be found neces- 
sary; (3) Shall report biennially. 

Section 553p — 2. 1. The state superintendent of education 
shall appoint an assistant in the department of public instruc- 
tion to be known as the assistant for industrial education. He 
shall with the advice, consent and direction of the state superin- 
tendent of education have general supervision over the public 
industrial schools and over all public evening schools, continua- 
tion schools and commercial schools created under sections 
553p — 1 to 553p — 15, inclusive. The laws relating to agricul- 
tural schools and the Platteville Mining Trade School shall re- 
main unaffected by said sections. 

2. The salary of the assistant shall be fixed by tbe state super- 
intendent of education with the approval of the state board of 
industrial education. 

3. The state superintendent of education shall bave in addi- 
tion to the assistant for industrial education such other assist- 
ants as he shall deem necessary for work in the same general 
field. 

4. All positions except that of assistant for industrial educa- 
tion shall be filled by civil service examination, as provided by 
sections 990 — 1 to 990 — 32, inclusive. But the total salary list 
exclusive of the salary of the assistant shall not exceed ten 
thousand dollars for any one year. 

5. The assistant shall have all necessary expenses to attend 
conventions and make investigations within or outside of the 
state when such expenses shall have been previously authorized 
by the state superintendent of education. 



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Section 553p — 3. 1. In every town or village or city of over 
five tlionsancl inhabitants there shall be, and in towns, cities and 
villages of less than five thonsand inhabitants there may be a 
local board of industrial education, wdiose duty it shall be to 
foster and establish and maintain industrial, commercial, con- 
tinuation and evening schools. Said board may take over and 
maintain in the manner provided in sections 553p — 1 to 
553p — 15, inclusive, any existing schools of similar nature. 

2. Such board shall consist of the city superintendent of 
schools ex officio or the principal of the high school ex officio, 
if there be no city superintendent, or the president or chairman 
of the local board charged with the supervision of the schools in 
case there be neither of the above mentioned officers, and four 
other members, two employers and two employes, who shall be 
appointed by the local board charged with the supervision of 
the schools and who shall serve without pay. 

3. The term of the appointive members of the local boards 
of industrial education shall be two years from the first of Jan- 
uary of the year in which they are appointed; provided, how- 
ever, that in the first appointment tAvo members shall be ap- 
pointed who are to serve for only one year from the first of Jan- 
uary of the year in which they are appointed. All subsequent 
appointments shall be for two years, except appointments to fill 
vacancies, which shall be for the unexpired portion of the term. 

4. The local board of industrial education shall elect its offi- 
cers from its membership, a chairman and a secretary. The 
local boards of industrial education, with the co-operation of 
the state board of industrial education, shall have general super- 
vision of the instruction in the local schools created under sec- 
tions 553p — 1 to 553p — 15, inclusive. 

5. No state aid shall be granted to schools created under sec- 
tions 553p — 1 to 553p — 15, inclusive, without the approval of 
the local board of industrial education. No money appropriated 
by the city, town or village for these schools shall be spent with- 
out the approval of the local board of industrial education. 

6. The teachers in the schools created under sections 553p — 1 
to 553p — 15, inclusive, shall be employed and their qualifications 
determined by the local board of industrial education. 

7. This board shall have power to purchase all machinery, 
tools and supplies, and purchase or lease suitable grounds or 
buildings for the use of the schools under its supervision. Exist- 



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ing school buildings and equipment shall be used as far as prac- 
ticable. 

8. The board is empowered to make contracts with the exten- 
sion division of the University of Wisconsin to give instruction 
in such branches as the department may offer, when in the judg- 
ment of the local board such instruction can be secured to better 
advantage than by local provision, 

9. Whenever twenty-five persons qualified to attend an indus- 
trial, commercial, continuation or evening school file a petition 
therefor with the local board of industrial education the board 
shall establish such school or schools or provide other facilities 
as authorized in sections 553p — 1 to 553p — 15, inclusive. 

Section 553p — 4. 1. The local board of industrial education 
of every city, village or town shall report to the common coun- 
cil, or village or town clerk at or before the first day of Septem- 
ber in each year, the amount of money required for the next 
fiscal year for the support of all the schools established or to be 
established under sections 553p — 1 to 553p — 15, inclusive, in 
said city,' village or town, and for the purchase of necessary ad- 
ditions to school sites, fixtures and supplies. 

2. There shall be levied and collected in every city, village or 
town, subject to taxation under sections 553p — 1 to 553p — ^15, 
inclusive, a tax upon all taxable property in said city, villaget 
or town, at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes 
are levied and collected by law, which together with the other 
funds provided by law and placed at the disposal of said city, 
village or town for the same purpose, shall be equal to the 
amount of money so required by said local board of industrial 
education for the purposes of said sections. 

3. The rate of tax levied for the purposes of sections 553p— 1 
to 553p — 15, inclusive, in any town, village or city shall not in 
any one year exceed one-half mill for the maintenance of all 
schools created under said sections. 

4. The said taxes for the purpose named in this section shall 
be in addition to all other special and general taxes levied for 
town, village or city purposes and shall be for the use and sup- 
port of schools established under sections 553p — 1 to 553p — 15, 
inclusive. 

5. The treasurer of the town, village or city shall keep such 
money separate from all other money, to be used exclusively for 
the purpose of industrial education as provided in sections 



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553p — 1 to 553p — 15, inclusive. All moneys appropriated and 
expended under said sections shall be expended by the local 
board of industrial education and shall be paid by the town, vil- 
lage or city treasurer on orders issued by said board and signed 
by its president and secretary. 

6. All moneys received by said board shall be paid to the 
town, village or city treasurer for the fund of the local board 
of industrial education. 

Section 553p — 5. 1. The courses of study in these schools 
shall be approved by the state superintendent of education and 
the state board of industrial education, and shall include Eng- 
lish, citizenship, sanitation and hygiene and the use of safety 
devices, and such other branches as the state superintendent and 
the state board of industrial education shall approve. 

2. The local board of industrial education may allow pupils 
attending any school established under sections 553p — 1 to 
553p — 15, inclusive, who have had courses equivalent to any of 
those offered, to substitute other work therefor. 

Section 553p — 6. 1. Not more than ten thousand dollars 
shall be appropriated from the state funds for the purposes of 
sections 553p— 1 to 553p — 15, inclusive, in any one city, town 
or village, and state aid shall not be given to more than thirty 
schools established under said sections. 

2. A school once granted state aid shall be entitled thereto 
as long as the character of its work meets with the approval of 
the state superintendent of education and the state board of in- 
dustrial education. 

3. The secretary of the local board of industrial education of 
each city, town or village in which such school or schools are 
maintained, shall on the first day of July in each year, report 
to the state superintendent of education the cost of maintaining 
the school, the character of the work done, the number, names 
and qualifications of the teachers employed, and such other in- 
formation as may be required by the state superintendent of 
education. 

4. If such report is satisfactory to the state superintendent 
of education and the state board of industrial education, and 
they are satisfied that the school or schools have been main- 
tained in a satisfactory manner for not less than eight months 
during the year ending the thirtieth of the preceding June, the 
state superintendent of education shall make a certificate to that 



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effect and file it with the secretary of state. The secretary of state 
shall then draw a warrant payable to the treasurer of such city, 
town or village in which the industrial school is located for a 
sum equal to one-half the amount actually expended in such in- 
dustrial school, continuation school, evening school or commer- 
cial school, during the preceding year, but not more than three 
thousand dollars shall be appropriated to any one school in one 
year. 

Section 553p — 7. The schools established under sections 
553p — 1 to 553p — 15, inclusive, shall be open to all residents of 
the cities, towns and villages in which such schools are located, 
of fourteen years of age or over who are not by law required to 
attend other schools. Any person over the age of fourteen who 
shall reside in any town, village or city not having an industrial 
school as provided in said sections, and who is otherwise qualified 
to pursue the course of study may with the approval of the local 
board of industrial education in any town, village or city hav- 
ing a school established under said sections, be allowed to attend 
any school under their supervision. Such persons shall be sub- 
ject to the same rules and regulations as pupils of the school 
wbo are residents of the town, village or city in which the school 
is located. 

Section 553p — 8. The local board of industrial education is 
authorized to charge tuition fee for nonresident pupils not to 
exceed fifty cents per week. On or before the first day of July 
in each year the secretary of the local board of industrial edu- 
cation shall send a sworn statement to the clerk of the city, vil- 
lage or town from which any such person or persons may have 
been admitted. This statement shall set forth the residence, 
name, age and date of entrance to such school, and the number 
of weeks' attendance during the preceding year of each such 
person at the school. It shall show the amount of tuition which 
under the provisions of this act the town, city or village is en- 
titled to receive on account of each and all such pupils' attend- 
ance. This statement shall be filed as a claim against the town, . 
village or city where such pupil resides and allowed as other 
claims are allowed. 

Section 553p — 9. Students attending any school under sec- 
tions 553p — 1 to 553p — 15, inclusive, may be required to pay 
for all material consumed by them in their work in such school 
at cost prices or in lieu thereof the school board may establish 



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a fixed sum to be paid by each student in each, course, which sum 
shall be sufficient to cover, as nearly as may be, the cost of the 
material to be consumed in such course; any manufactured ar- 
ticles made in such school and that may accumulate shall be 
disposed of at their market value at the discretion of the school 
board, and the proceeds shall be paid to the local treasurer for 
the fund of the local board of industrial education. 

Section 553p — 10. The state board of industrial education 
shall also constitute a body corporate under the name of the 
"Board of Trustees of the Stout Institute," and shall possess 
all powers necessary or convenient to accomplish the objects and 
perform the duties prescribed by law. In such capacity, such 
board shall also employ such clerks and assistants as may be 
necessary to properly conduct its affairs. The state treasurer 
shall be ex officio treasurer of the board, but the board may ap- 
point a suitable person to receive fees or other moneys that may 
be due such board, to disburse any part thereof, to account 
therefor, and to pay the balance to the state treasurer. 

Section 553p — 11. Such board is authorized to accept free 
of cost to the state and to hold as a trustee for the state, the 
property of the Stout Institute located at Menomonie, Wiscon- 
sin, and to maintain such institute under the name of "The 
Stout Institute." Provided, that the trustees of said Stout In- 
stitute turn over to the state, within two months after the pas- 
sage and publication of this act, said property free and clear of 
all incumbrances and debt, released from all claims or interest 
which the city of Menomonie or the heirs of James H. Stout 
may have had in said property and having put the buildings in 
good condition, and having made such repairs as may be neces- 
sary before turning over said property. The board is also 
authorized to accept such other property or moneys as it may 
deem advisable to be accepted which can profitably be used by 
it in promoting the interests entrusted to it. Such board may 
purchase, have, hold, control, possess and enjoy, in trust, for the 
state, for educational purposes, any lands, tenements, heredita- 
ments, goods and chattels, of any nature, which may be neces- 
sary and required to accomplish the purposes and objects of the 
l)oarcl, and may sell or dispose of any personal property when in 
its judgment it shall be for the interests of the state. 

Section 553p — 12. The purposes and objects of the institute 
shall be to instruct young persons in industrial arts and occupa- 



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tions and the theory and art of teaching such, and to give sucli 
instruction as will lead to a fair knowledge of the liberal arts, a 
just and seemly appreciation of the nobility and dignity of 
labor, and in general to promote diligence, economy, efficiency, 
honor and good citizenship. 

Section 553p — 13. The said board shall have power: 

(1) To make rules, regulations and by-laws for the govern- 
ment and management of the institute and the students therein, 
including the power to suspend or expel students for miscon- 
duct or other cause. 

(2) To appoint a president of the institute and other officers, 
teachers and assistants, and to employ such other persons as 
may be required; to fix the salary of each person so appointed 
or employed and to prescribe their several duties; to remove at 
pleasure any president, other officer, teacher, assistant or person 
from any office or employment in connection with the institute. 

(3) To purchase such supplies as may be necessary in the 
conduct of the institute and its various departments. 

(4) To prescribe rules, regulations and terms for the ad- 
mission and control of the students, to prescribe courses of 
study and methods and means of instruction, and to issue cer- 
tificates or diplomas. 

(5) To co-operate with other educational institutions and 
agencies in instruction and training, leading to efficiency in in- 
dustrial arts and occupations. 

Section 553p — ^14. There is hereby appropriated out of any 
money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum 
sufficient to carry into effect the provisions of sections 553p — 1 
to 553p — 15, inclusive. However, in no case shall the sum ap- 
propriated for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of 
this act exceed the sum of thirty thousand dollars during the 
fiscal year ending July 1, 1912, nor more than fifty-five thous- 
and dollars per annum thereafter. Twenty thousand dollars 
of the above moneys shall be set aside annually, beginning July 
1, 1911, for the purpose of maintaining the Stout Institute as 
provided in sections 553p — 10 to 553p — 13, inclusive. 

Section 553p — 15. All acts and parts of acts conflicting 
with any provisions of this act are repealed in so far as they 
are inconsistent therewith. Provided, however, nothing in this 
act shall be construed to interfere in any manner with trade 
schools established under sections 926 — 22 to 926 — 30, inclu- 



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sive, and amendments thereof, unless the school board of any 
such city or school district shall by a majority vote adopt the 
provisions of sections 553p — 1 to 553p — 15, inclusive, and shall 
proceed in the manner provided for, for every town, village or 
city of over five thousand inhabitants, as provided in said sec- 
tions. (1911 c. 616). 

SchDol Buildings and Grounds Used for Special Activities. 

Section 435e. 1. Boards of school directors in cities of the 
first, second or third class are hereby authorized to establish 
and maintain for children and adult persons, in the school 
buildings and on the school grounds, under the custody and 
management of such boards, evening schools, vacation schools, 
reading rooms, library stations, debating clubs, gymnasiums, 
public playgrounds, public baths and similar activities, and ac- 
commodations to be determined by such boards, without charge 
to the residents of such cities; also to co-operate with commis- 
sioners or boards having the custody and management in such 
cities of public parks, libraries, museums and public buildings 
and grounds of whatever sort, and by making arrangements 
satisfactory to such boards of school directors, and such com- 
missioners or boards controlling other public buildings and 
grounds, to provide the supervision, instruction and oversight 
necessary to carry on public educational and recreational activ- 
ities, as described in this section, in buildings and upon 
grounds in the custody and under the management of such com- 
missioners or boards having charge of public parks, libraries, 
museums or public buildings and grounds of whatever sort in 
such cities of the first, second or third class. 

2. If any board of school directors shall neglect or refuse to 
proceed as authorized in this section, the question of their ac- 
tion as herein authorized shall, upon petition to that effect, 
signed by not less than ten per cent of the number of voters 
voting at the last school or o':her election in such city, be sub- 
mitted to the electors of the school district at the next election 
0% any sort held therein, and if a majority of the votes cast 
upon such proposition shall be in favor thereof, then the board 
of school directors shall proceed to undertake and organize this 
work as authorized in this section. 

3. Boards of school directors in cities of the first, second or 
third class shall report to the common council of such cities at 



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or before the first meeting of such common council in Sej)teni- 
ber of each year, the amount of money required for the next 
fiscal year for the support of the aforementioned activities of 
a similar nature which may have been previously determined 
upon by such boards of school directors, and it shall be the duty 
of such common council to levy and collect a tax upon all the- 
property, subject to taxation in said city, at the same time and 
in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected by 
law, which shall be equal to the amount of money so required, 
for such purposes by the said board of school directors as pro- 
vided in this section ; provided, that the tax so levied upon each 
dollar of the asses'^ed valuation of all property, real and per- 
sonal, in said city, suliject to taxation, shall not in any one year 
exceed two tenths mill for the purpose of the activities herein- 
before mentioned in this section and other similar activities 
which may have been determined upon by such board of school 
directors of each city. The said tax shall not be used or ap- 
propriated, directly or indirectly, for any other purpose than 
that provided in this section. 

4. All moneys received by or raised in such city for the 
aforementioned purpose shall be paid over to the city treas- 
urer, to be disbursed by him on orders of such board of school 
directors in such city, countersigned by the comptroller in the 
same manner that other funds at the disposal of such board of" 
school directors in such city are disbursed by them. But the 
tax provided for in this section shall not be levied or collected, 
nor shall the board of school directors, as provided in this sec- 
tion, have authority to require the levy and collection of such 
tax, until after the question of the levy and collection of such 
tax shall have been submitted to the qualified school electors, 
of such city at some regular or special election, and shall have- 
been favorably voted upon by a majority of those voting upon 
such question at such election. The c|uestion as to the levy and 
collection of such special tax shall be submitted to the voters 
in the usual manner upon request of the board of school direc- 
tors in such city, or the question of the levy of such tax shall' 
be submitted upon a petition to that eifect, signed by not less, 
than ten per cent of the number of voters voting at the last 
school election, held previously in such city. 

5. After the question of the levy and collection of such spe- 
cial tax has been submitted to and approved by the voters as: 



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provided in this section, the authority shall remain, and suehi 
tax shall be levied and collected annnall}'' until such time as the 
voters of the school district of such city shall, by majority 
vote, order the discontinuance of the levy and collection of 
such tax. The question of the discontinuance of the levy and 
collection of such tax shall he submitted to the voters in the 
same manner and under the same conditions as the proposition 
to authorize the levy and collection of the said tax. 

6. The board of school directors in any city covered by this, 
section is also empowered to receive and expend for the pur- 
poses of this section any sums of money appropriated and 
turned over to them by the common council of such city 
for such purposes; and the common council of such city shall 
have authority to appropriate and turn over to the board of 
school directors of the school district of such city any reason- 
able sums of money which the said common council may de- 
sire to appropriate out of the general fund of such city and 
turn over to the said board of school directors for the pur- 
poses herein set forth. {1911 c. 509) 

Special aid to County Schools of Agriculture and Domestici 
Science. 

Section 5531. 3. Upon receiving such certificate, the sec- 
retary of state shall draw his warrant, payable to the treasurer- 
of the county maintaining such school, for a sum equal to two- 
thirds the amount actually expended for maintaining such 
school during the year ; provided that the total amount so ap- 
portioned shall not exceed six thousand dollars to any one 
school in any one year when the average daily attendance shall' 
be less than one hundred and twelve pupils, and shall not ex- 
ceed the sum of seven thousand dollars when the average daily 
attendance shall exceed one hundred and twelve pupils and be 
less than one hundred and thirty-seven pupils, and shall not 
exceed the sum of eight thousand dollars when the average 
daily attendance shall exceed one hundred and thirty-seven 
pupils; when more than one county has contributed to the sup- 
port of the school, the secretary of state shall draw his war- 
rant payable to the treasurer of each county for such portion 
of the state aid as the amount contributed by his county is part 
of the total amount contributed by all the counties for the sup- 
port of the school for the preceding year. The secretary of 



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•state shall annually include and apportion in the state tax suck 
sum as shall have been so paid. {1911 c. 646) 

Minimum wages for teachers of Manual Training, Domestic 
Science and Industrial Work. 

Section 5531 — 1. No state aid shall be granted to any school 
for instruction given in agriculture, domestic economy, manual 
training or industrial branches unless the salary paid to every 
•teacher instructing in such subjects be at least at the rate of 
-sixty dollars per month. {1911 c. 544 ) 



INDEX 



AGRICULTURE '[I Page- 
Schools of 41 

How established 41 

State aid 42" 

APPRENTICESHIP LAW 

Contracts between minors and employers 24- 

Indentures 24^ 

Failure to keep agreement, penalty 25- 

ATTENDANCE 

Compulsory between ages of 7 and 14 3- 

Compulsory between 14 and 16 if not employed 3- 

BOARDS 

Board of Trustees of Stout Institute 37 

State Board of Industrial Education 37 

Local Boards of Industrial Education 3&. 

BRANCHES OP STUDY FOR INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS 

By whom approved 35. 

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 39- 

OENSUS 

How taken and reported by district clerk in joint districts 6- 

When to be taken 6- 

Reports of teachers 6 

Failure to make reports, penalty 8- 

Duties of county, district, and city superintendents 8- 

Duty of truancy oflBcer 8' 

CHILD LABOR LAW 

(See Labor Laws) , it 

CHILDREN 

Employment of 11,12,13,14,15,16 

Truants 3,4,5,8,9,15- 

Incorrigibles 5- 

COMMERCIAL EDUCATION 

(See Commercial, Industrial, Continuation, and Evening schools) 31 

4 



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"COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE LAW Page 

Age of child ; ho^Y detei'mined 3,4,5 

Action lironght iu name of the state 5 

Penalty for violation of attendance law 4,5 

^Incorrigibles 5 

■ Children between 7 and 14 attend school regularly 3 

Children between 14 and 16 must attend school unless lawfully em- 
ployed 3 

Children must attend some public, private, or parochial school 4 

Instruction elsewhere than at school 4 



CONTINUATION AND EVENING SCHOOLS 

(See Commercial, Industrial, Continuation, and Evening Schools) 31 



-DANGEROUS OCCUPATIONS 

Minors are forbidden to engage in 11 



DOMESTIC SCIENCE 

State aid 42 



EVENING SCHOOLS 

(See Commercial, Industrial, and Continuation Schools) 31 



.lEE 

For tuition 36 

juimitations 36 

Non-residents 36 

ja^mount each town, city, or village is entitled to receive 36 

Filing of statement 36 



FINES AND FORFEITURES 

For violation of truancy laws 4,8 

For violation of Child Labor Law 16,17 

For violation of hours of labor for women 21 

For violation of employment of persons between 14 and 16 years of 

age 22 

lor violation of employment of illiterate minors 23 



INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL, CONTINUATION, AND EVENING 
SCHOOLS 

Assistant, how appointed 32 

Board appointed by governor 31 

Board maj' establish schools, when 34 

Board of industrial education, term of office, powers, and duties 31 

Courses of study, how approved 35 

Local board, how organized 33 

Ijocal board to report to city council 34 

Material used to be paid for by students 36 

Manufactured articles may be sold 37 

Moneys, how cared for 34 

Moneys, how paid 35 

Power of board to purchase machinery, tools, etc 37 



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IXDUSTItlAL. t^):\LMEKCIAL, CONTINUATION, xiND EVENING 

SCIK )( )IjS — coutinr.ed Pilge 
Powei- of board to contract for lecturers by University Extension Di- 
vision 34 

Itate of tax restricted 34 

balary of assistant 32 

Schools to be approved by state superintendent 35 

Schools free to persons 14 or more years of age 36 

Schools, approval of 35 

Secretary of local board to report to state superintendent 35 

State aid, when granted 33 

Tax, how levied and collected 34 

Tax, shall be in addition to other tax 34 

Teachers' qualifications 33 

Towns, villages, and cities to maintain school 33 

Tuition fee, nonresident, how collected 36 



INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION 

(See State Board of Indusmal Education) 31 



LABOR LAWS 

Actions, how brought 17 

Age of persons affected 11 

Attendance of children at evening schools, continuation schools, etc.. 10,21 
Children under 14 may be granted permits to work in certain places 

during vacation 12 

Children prohibited from performing on musical instruments in 
churches or schools or taking part in concert, festival, or musi- 
cal exhibition 13 

Children physically disal^led to work to be refused permits 15 

Children not prohibited from being employed at farming 16 

Children under IS years of age not to have charge of any elevator 16 

Children under 16 not to be employed more than 48 hours in one 

week 14 

Children under 16 not to be employed more than 8 hours in one day 14 

Conditions under which permits are granted 13 

Duty of commissioner of labor and factory inspectors to enforce law 14 

Duty of officers to refuse to grant permits in certain cases 15 

Factory inspectors have full power as truant ofBcers 15 

Factory inspectors can compel attendance at school 15 

Factory inspectors may grant permits 11 

Commissioner of Labor ma,v revoke permit 15 

Kinds of machinery about which children shall not be employed 16 

Kinds of labor at which children shall not be employed 11 

Penalty for violation of labor law, how recovered by officer 16 

Permits, what shall contain 18 

Permit, by whom signed 11 , 22 

Permit, power to grant cannot be delegated 11 

Permit, not to he granted to children under 14 12 

iermit may be granted to children under 14 to work in certain places 

during vacation 12 

I'ermit, special may be granted to children under 14 in certain cases 12 

I'owers of commissioner of labor, etc. 15 

Provisions of labor law, how and by whom enforced 14,15 

Register to be kept by persons employing minors 13 

Regulation of working hours 14 

Revocation of i>ermit 15 



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LABOR LAWS— continued Page 
Unlawful to employ any person under 16 in certain places or occu- 
pations without permit 14 

Workshop, factory, and manufacturing establishment defined 16 



MANUAL TRAINING 

State aid 42 

Teachers' salaries 42 

MINORS 

(See Continuation and Evening Schools) 10 

Employment of 21 

Illiterate minors 22 

(See Apprenticeship Law) 24 



PENALTIES 

(See Fines and Forfeitures) 4,8,16,17,21,22,23 



REPORTS 

Of district clerk 6 

Of public school teachers 6 

Of parochial and private school teachers 7 

Of teachers in cities of 2,000 and over 7 

Of County Superintendent to Truant OflBcers and Commissioner of 

Industrial Statistics 8 

County and City Superintendents to Bureau of Labor and Industrial 

Statistics 10 

SCHOOLS 

Attendance at, compulsory 3,9 

Agriculture and Domestic Science 41 

Trade Schools 26 



SCHOOL CENSUS 

How taken and reported by district clerk in joint districts. 

When to be taken 

To whom sent 



STATE AID FOR INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION 

Appropriations for cities of less than 5,000 33 

Maximum appropriation 36 

How long state aid is given to any school 35 

To schools of agriculture and domestic economy 41 



STATE SUPERINTENDENT 

Member ex-ofBcio of State Board of Industrial Education SI 

Shall appoint assistant for Industrial Education 32 

STOUT INSTITUTE 

Acceptance by the state 37 

Appropriation for maintenance 3S 

Board of Trustees, how organized, duties of 37 

Board has power to suspend students for misconduct 38 



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Page 
■STOUT INSTITUTE— continued. 

Purposes and object of the institute. ........ ; .•.'.'.■......•.■ 37,38 

Board has power to 

Appoint a president 38 

Purchase supplies and prescribe rules 38 

To cooperate with other institutions 38 

Charge tuition for non-residents 36 

SUPERINTENDENTS— COUNTY, DISTRICT, AND CITY— DUTIES 

Census reports 8 

Truancy 8 



SUPERINTENDENT, STATE 

(See State Superintendent) 32 



TAXES 

Trade school fund 29 

How levied 29 

Maximum amount levied 30 



TRADE SCHOOLS 

Advisory committee provided for, how constituted, powers of, terni 

of office 27 

Ages of students 26 

Establishment of school 26 

Duties of the common council 29 

Have power to equip with necessary machinery and tools 27 

How organized and maintained 27 

Length of term of appointment of committee 27 

Maximum amount of tax levied 27,28 

Minimum number of students permitted 26 

Notices to be given 28 

Jr'etition, how signed 28 

Power of school board to establish and fix fee for tuition, amount 

of such fee determined 27 

Procedure when part of territory lies outside of city limits 29 

Procedure in cases where no petition is filed 29 

bchool board have control 27 

School board may establish and maintain, may employ instructors.. 27 

School board to make rules and regulations for 27 

bchool board may dispose of articles manufactured, proceeds of sale 

to be paid into trade school fund 27 

School board to make tax levy 27,28 

Special election, how noticed and conducted 29 

Temporary transfer of money from school fund, to be refunded 28 

Question may be submitted to the people at a special election 29 

Vacancy on committee, how filled 27 

TRUANCY 

(See Compulsory Attendance Law) 3 

TRUANT OFFICERS 

How many 5 

Duties 5 

Compensation • • 10 



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WOMEN 

Hours 20" 

Employment between 14 and 16 years of age in certain cases 21 

Certificate of employment for minors 22 

Illiterate minors 22'. 

Employer's placard 21 

Penalties for violation 21. 









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